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PLACING OUR BETS
SEPTEMBER 2009–DECEMBER 2009
Maemo showed that Nokia still had the magic touch. Now we needed to translate that magic into product sales. From a business point of view, we urgently needed a win.
EVEN WHILE MEANT as a prototype, the N900 (a forerunner of great future Maemo devices) was the first mobile device I had ever used that felt like a real PC. It had a full browser, where the browser on most smartphones typically had limited functionality and modified the web pages to fit the smaller screen. Despite a resistive touchscreen ...
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